![]() ![]() Sign up for our Afternoon Update newsletter here. And finish your day with a three-minute snapshot of the day’s main news. If you would like to receive this Morning Mail update to your email inbox every weekday, sign up here. What’s happening todayĪBS numbers out | There’ll be figures out on last year’s provisional mortality statistics, as well as barriers and incentives to labour force participation. And ahead of last night’s Bulldogs win over the Lions at Marvel Stadium, the Age reports, rising star Jamarra Ugle-Hagan made a stirring statement against racism. Speaking of, the Sydney Morning Herald yesterday revealed that Paul Keating’s recent attacks on the deal are still causing ripples in Washington. The ABC is reporting teething problems with Aukus as the defence department struggles with a “massive backlog” of mandatory security clearances for skilled staff. Women’s Champions League | Follow the Chelsea v Lyon quarter-final here.Īccording to the Fin, there’s a gas tax rise on the agenda for Labor’s May budget, which has had a strategy shakeup due to slowing growth and global economic volatility, Chalmers has told the Australian. Socceroos | Our cartoonist has a few thoughts about optimism on the home front after the double-header in Ecuador. If you are fatphobic … you are handing people the tools to destroy themselves.” The world of sportįootball | Under new rules, the Premier League will block owners guilty of human rights abuses, “Fatphobia does not cause thinness, it causes shame. “If you’ve never spoken out against it, now is the time.” She’s seen a few red flags making the rounds: the success of Brendon Fraser comeback vehicle The Whale, several high-profile “transformations”, everything to do with the concept of “buccal fat” removal – and that whole Ozempic thing. “I smell a whiff of 2000s fat-shaming in the air,” Bec Shaw writes today. ‘Fatphobia is not just a problem for fat people, it causes everyone to hate their body, regardless of their size’.’ Composite: REX/Shutterstock/Ian West/PA/Paramount/Sportsphoto/Allstar/Invision/AP/Evan Agostini/Getty Pope Francis | The 86-year-old pontiff has had a marked improvement in his health after being taken to hospital on Wednesday, doctors say, and could be discharged “in the next few days”. UK phone-hacking trial | Prince Harry’s lawyer has accused the Daily Mail’s parent company of “gaslighting” victims by covering up its journalists’ alleged illegal behaviour. Parole test | Oscar Pistorius, the South African Paralympian convicted of murder, could leave prison within weeks if a parole board decides on Friday to release him halfway through a 13-year sentence for killing his girlfriend. Journalist arrested | US secretary of state Antony Blinken has condemned Russia’s arrest of WSJ reporter Evan Gershkovich – a high-profile journalist who could be used as leverage in a potential prisoner swap – with Moscow accused of engaging in “hostage taking”. ‘Vulkan files’ leak | Secret documents leaked by a whistleblower angry over the Ukraine war have revealed Putin’s global and domestic cyberwarfare tactics – showing how the Russian army is adopting the mindset of secret police. But there are concerns about overcrowded services and stranded commuters.įiles in a major new leak come from NTC Vulkan, a cybersecurity firm in Moscow that doubles as a contractor to Russian military and intelligence agencies. Regional travel prices | From today, travel on Victoria’s V/Line services will be capped at $9.20 a day for an adult and $4.60 for concession and child fares – a Labor election commitment. Access to fully subsidised care currently depends on individual states and territories’ (changing) policies – a “crazy mix model system” that one expert says is confusing for parents. “Chaos is built into the system” | Declining numbers of children attending preschool have sparked calls for universal free childcare. The rental crisis goes on | After the end of the Rudd-era national affordability scheme, and as debate stalls over the housing future fund, renters are facing surging costs. Wage price spiral? | Employers have warned that an “excessive” 7% minimum wage rise in line with inflation advocated by unions could tip Australia into recession – a suggestion Jim Chalmers yesterday rejected as the government submitted to the Fair Work Commission that it should “ensure the real wages of Australia’s low-paid workers do not go backwards”. “1980s thinking” | Following divisions over the safeguard mechanism, Tasmanian Greens senator Nick McKim has urged Australia’s climate and environment movement to “collectively get its shit together”. ![]() Nick McKim says politics needs to move past the idea of the Greens’ role as being to change Labor from within – accusing some environmental groups of being too interested in ‘access to government and perceived influence’.
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